Western appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1885-18??, 1887-08-06
Political aud Personal.


Rev. VIM. Hague, D. D., aged 70, dropped
dead in front of fremont Temple, Boston
Aug 1.
1t is now said that Hon. j. G. Blaine will
remain in Europe during the coming
winter.
August 1st was celebrated by the colored
people throughout the country as Emanci-
patton day.
Senator Sherman has followed Senator
Vest to Alaska, via the Canadian Pacific
and Puget Sound.
Augusta, Ga, New Orleans and Knoxville
Tenn, have sent invitations to the President
and his wife to make them visit.
The Chinese minister to tie United States
Spain and Peru, Chang Ia Jen, has arrived
at London on his way to Washington.
Senator John Sherman has been appointed
member of the Washington Monument
association in place of Gen. W. A. Mckee
Dunn, deceased.
The wife of President Cleveland with her
mother and an aunt, left Washington yery
| quietly Monday afternoon for Massachu
setts, and expect to be absent at New Eng
| land resorts for some weeks.
The Department of State at Washington,
received August /, from Toxic, the sad
intelligence of the death of Mrs Hubbard.
! wife of the United States minister to ,Janan
Mrs. Hubbard had been in iii health for
/ many months.
The National Prohibition party has issued
the following: The national committee OF
| the Prohibition party are hereby called to
meet N Chicago, Ill, on the 10Th of Novem-
| Der, 1887, at 10 q. M, for the purpose of fix
ing the time and place of the national con
vention in 1888, and transacting such other
business as pertains to the national conven-
ton.
Mrs. Logan has returned to Washington,
and it was fround necessary for her to en-
dure surgical operations for her dislocated
| shoulder and elbow joints, they being
among the injuries she received from her
illinois accident. DR.. Hamilton per. ormed
| the operations which Mrs Logan endured
very well, though enfeebled by former sr1f-
fering.
Miss Henrietta Hill, well known mission
worker of Brooklyn, n Y, has been mar
ried to Rev JOS M. Singleton, the Chinese
evangelist, whose real name is Ju Sing. and
who is at the head of large mission de-
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in that city Miss Hill was prominent IN
social circles and the marriage causes some
| thing of a sensation.
Gen. J. W. Comfy, one of the generation
of Ohio men, distinguished during the war,
died at Toledo July 26, of heart and lung
malady. Hewa IS years old and leaves
| two sons and a daughter. He enlisted in
President Hayes regiment, rose to be COT
onel and Big. Gen. by breast. He conducted
the Ohio State Journal from 1872 to 1878, in
which year he was appointed Minister to
Honolulu, and remained there until 1883.
He then bought the Toledo Commercial
which he conducted until his death.
a Kansas City delegation, over 100, in
Guiding ladies called on President Cleve-
land with an invitation to visit that city.
The invitation was accepted, the President
saying the time of his visit would be be-
tween the LIST and 18th of October The
Kansas City invitation is large volume.
handsomely bound in sealskin and bearing
on q white satin panel inserted in the cover
the words: Kansas City, to President
Cleveland and Mrs Cleveland Greeting.
1887. The leaves of the book contain ale
gorical figures illustrative of the resources
Of Kansas City and the states Of Kansas
and Missouri, Texas, Colorado and the
Indian Territory. Then follow the 81, 900
signatures. The President was introduced.
TO the ladies accompanying the party, who